Max freund



(No Model.)

NLFREUND. BETT AND SKIRT ATTACHMENT.

Patented m 419', 1896. j

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

MAX FREUND, OF N ElV YORK, N. Y.

BE| T AND' SKIRT ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming-part of Letters .Patent No. 560,489, dated May 19, 1896. I Application filed December 6, 1895. Serial No. 571,278. (No model.)-

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX FREUND, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Belt and Skirt Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a belt and skirt attachment by which the belt will be kept in smooth or sightly condition while in use; and the invention resides in the novel features of construction set forthin the following specification and claim and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the attachment on a belt. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the attachment. Fig. 3 is a section along line :10 as, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section along line y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view of part of the attachment. Fig. 6 is a detail view of another part of the attachment.

The belt 1 is adapted to be clasped or secured in place on the person in any suitable way. On the belt is a slide or buckle comprising the plates or members 2 and 3, adapted to clasp or surround the belt or to sit on opposite sides of the belt. The slide or attachment 2 3 is shown with a cross-bar 4, having a fastening 5, such as a safety-pin, for holding up a skirt or article of apparel. The slide part 3 has a loose or opening end or portion 6, which when released from the catch or shoulder 7 on plate or member 2 wi lallow the slide to be readily dismounted rom the belt or slipped onto a belt without taking the belt off or without it being necessary 0 free one end of the belt from the clasp or stening by The plates 2 and 3 are corrugated or provided with corrugations 9 and 10, and when said plates receive between them a belt such corrugations engaging the belt prevent the latter from wrinkling or puckering. The corrugations need only in general be applied so as to engage the lower edge portion of the belt, as such partial engagement by the corrugations has been found sufficient to keep the belt seated smooth or sightly on the person; but of course the corrugations are not limited to such position, as they can be arranged to grip or engage other portions of the belt or to engage the belt across its entire width. The corrugations 9 and 10 are arranged alternately, so that the ridges of one set of corrugations engage between the ridges of the other set of corrugations to secure firm engagement of the belt.

By having the corrugations 9 not formed directly on or in the plate or base 2, but on a carrier or carrying-plate 12 secured to plate 2, said plate 2 will not be disfigured by the corrugations, and the exposed face or portion of said plate 2 can be left plain or ornamented by embossing or otherwise, as found suitable or desirable.

The carrier 12 is shown as supporting or formed with catch or shoulder 7 for engagement of the opening portion 6. The plate 3 is shown connected or jointed at 13 to the carrier 12.

By forming the plate 3 with a bead or rib 14, running along said plate, and having the corrugations 10 located at each side of said rib or indentation, the plate 3, even when of light metal or material, will possess a certain degree of rigidity and will at the same time be sufficiently elastic or springy to allow of the portion 6 to be forced into engagement with catch 7 even when belts of varying thicknesses are placed between the parts 2 and 3. The fastening 5, having been secured as desired to a skirt or apparel, can be left thus secured even when undressing, as the disengagement or opening of plate 3 will free the attachment from the belt.

The attachment is suitable for belts of various kinds-as, for example, leather, cloth, tinsel, rubber, or other material.

Of course the invention is not limited to the exact construction shown, as modifications can be made which are within the scope of the invention-as,for example,the carrier 12 need not be in form of a plate, since a bar or rod secured to plate 2 can be corrugated and formed with a catch 7. Modifications of such character are manifestly Within the scope of the invention.

The operation of opening the plate 3 can be facilitated by a knob or finger-piece 15,adapted to be graspedor engaged bya nail or finger.

The base-plate 2 can be made in one piece or unbroken or, if seen fit, can be made of open-work.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, the belt-slide herein described and shown, consisting of a rigid base-plate 2 provided with corrugations 9 on its inner side and having at one end a catch 7, and a secondary plate 3 hinged at one end to the base-plate and formed 1 integral with the continuous, longitudinal strengthening-rib 14, at opposite sides of 

